All New Square Foot Gardening, 3rd Edition, Fully Updated
MORE Projects - NEW Solutions - GROW Vegetables Anywhere
- 272 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
All New Square Foot Gardening, 3rd Edition, Fully Updated
MORE Projects - NEW Solutions - GROW Vegetables Anywhere
About This Book
This updated third edition of the best-selling gardening book in North America continues to inspire with planting charts, growing tips, and the know-how you need to grow more veggies than ever before.
Since Square Foot Gardening was first introduced by Mel Bartholomew in 1981, this revolutionary way to grow vegetables has helped millions of home gardeners enjoy their own organic, fresh produce in less space and with less work than traditional row gardens.
New and experienced gardeners will love the charts, photos, illustrations, and how-to tips in All New Square Foot Gardening, 3rd Edition âincluding 42 veggie-specific planting, growing, and harvesting guides âthat make growing your own food fun, easy, and productive.
Perfect for experienced gardeners or beginners, you'll learn the three simple steps to Square Foot Gardening: build a box; fill it with Mel's Mixâ˘; add a grid. No digging, no tilling, no fertilizing, no guessworkâless watering, waste, and weeding! There's so much more packed in this 272-page instructional book âboost your organic vegetable harvest with inspiring how-tos such as:
- Adding trellises and archways to grow up and maximize your space
- Installing automatic watering systems
- Growing vegetables in dense urban areas with little or no yard
- Feeding your veggies the organic way with Mel's Mixâ˘
- Teaching STEM to kids with Square Foot Gardeningâperfect for little hands
- Protecting your plants with shade and frost covers
- Managing pests in the garden with natural methods
Join the millions of gardeners around the world who grow their own organic, fresh produce with Square Foot Gardening, and make next season your best veggie harvest ever.
Frequently asked questions
Information
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
- Why do gardeners grow in rows spaced 3 feet apart? That space is nothing more than room for weeds to grow.
- Why do gardeners always grow more food than they can possibly eat? Almost every gardener wastes food by growing too much.
- Why do vegetable gardeners plant such long rows? It takes up too much space.
- Why do they fertilize so much? It is costly and inefficient.
- Why is it necessary to weed constantly? All that work spoils the fun.
ADVANTAGE TO BEGINNERS
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The 10 Basics and 8 Steps of Square Foot Gardening
- 3 Planning Your Square Foot Garden
- 4 Laying Out Your Square Foot Garden
- 5 Building Boxes & Grids
- 6 Square Foot Garden Extras
- 7 Melâs Mix: The Magical Growing Medium
- 8 Planting Your Square Foot Garden
- 9 Maintaining Your Square Foot Garden
- 10 Harvesting Your Square Foot Garden
- 11 Outside the Box: Community Opportunities
- 12 The Square Foot Gardening Guide to Vegetables
- Appendices
- Photo Credits
- Dedication
- Copyright